But you can choose how you lead.

AI can give you answers in seconds. What it can’t give you is what someone learned by living through the situation you’re in now: what it cost them, what they’d do differently, what was never written down anywhere. That knowledge leaves the organization with the people who carry it, unless someone passes it on.

This isn’t a presentation about mentoring; it’s 45 minutes of mentoring. Working in small groups on real situations brought by participants, you’ll practise the difference between giving advice and using your experience to help someone else think better, without taking over their problem and without needing all the answers.

You’ll leave with a simple structure for a mentoring conversation you can use on Monday: with a colleague, someone in your team, or even someone more experienced than you. You don’t need to be a manager to be a mentor. But you need to be a mentor if you are a manager or a leader. You already have the experience. Here you practise making it useful to someone else.

About Vlad

Vlad Duțescu, PhD, EIA Senior Practitioner and ITCA Practitioner, is President of EMCC Romania (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) and has represented the country on the EMCC Global Council since 2022. A recognised voice in business coaching, leadership development, sales management and team development, he brings two decades of experience helping people and organizations perform better.

At Bucharest Business School he teaches Innovation Management and Expand Your Horizon to MBA students. Since 2008 he has been part of Sandler Training, where he is Master Franchisee for Romania.

A graduate of the University of Medicine, he spent 15 years in pharmaceutical sales and marketing before founding his own people and organizational development practice in 2004. He is a co-founder of the Coaching & Mentoring Festival and Sponsor of the MOZAIC Reciprocal Mentoring Programme (ISMCP Gold accreditation from EMCC Global), which since 2023 has connected over 375 participants from 43 countries, speaking 30 languages.

When the pressure is constant and the calendar is full, the part of you that actually leads people is the first thing to go quiet. Peter has been on both sides of that: running high-stakes operations in the corporate world, and teaching leaders how to come back to themselves. In this session he shares what he learned about clarity, emotional stability and presence under pressure, and a simple practice you can start using on Monday.

About Peter

Most leaders know what to do. The harder part is being able to do it when they are exhausted, overloaded and running on empty.

Peter Gajdos knows that pressure from the inside. As Regional Manager at General Electric, he supported some of the most advanced cardiac surgery clinics in Pécs, Hungary, where mistakes are not an option. He later scaled a construction startup into a major market player.

Alongside his business career, Peter has been a certified Transcendental Meditation teacher since 1995. Since 2006 he has helped restructure the TM organization in Hungary, and he has overseen TM initiatives across 10 countries. Today he is National Leader of the TM organization in Hungary, and at The Human Shift he brings one practical idea from real experience.